{"id":432335,"date":"2021-08-26T16:17:29","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T10:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=432335"},"modified":"2021-08-26T16:17:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T10:47:29","slug":"chinas-sinopec-flags-new-oil-and-gas-find-in-xinjiang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chinas-sinopec-flags-new-oil-and-gas-find-in-xinjiang\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Sinopec flags new oil and gas find in Xinjiang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s state-run energy major Sinopec said on Wednesday it had discovered a new 100-million-tonne oil and gas field in the Shunbei area of the Tarim Basin in the country&#8217;s Xinjiang region.<\/p>\n<p>An exploration well drilled by the company&#8217;s northwest China unit achieved a daily flow of 865 tonnes (6,315 barrels) of crude oil and 590,000 cubic metres of natural gas, Sinopec said on Weibo, a Twitter-like microblogging platform.<\/p>\n<p>It gave no precise resource estimate, saying only that more than 100 million tonnes of oil and gas had been discovered.<\/p>\n<p>Annual oil output from Sinopec&#8217;s Shunbei field in Xinjiang, which was discovered in 2016, rose by nearly 30% in 2020 to about 1 million tonnes, while gas production was up 32% to 350 million cubic metres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s state-run energy major Sinopec said on Wednesday it had discovered a new 100-million-tonne oil and gas field in the Shunbei area of the Tarim Basin in the country&#8217;s Xinjiang region. An exploration well drilled by the company&#8217;s northwest China unit achieved a daily flow of 865 tonnes (6,315 barrels) of crude oil and 590,000 cubic metres of natural gas, Sinopec said on Weibo, a Twitter-like microblogging platform. It gave no precise resource estimate, saying only that more than 100 million tonnes of oil and gas had been discovered. Annual oil output from Sinopec&#8217;s Shunbei field in Xinjiang, which was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oil-gas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}